Automatic lemmatization in Setswana: Towards a prototype

South African Journal of African Languages

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-47

  Brits, Karien ^a   Pretorius, Rigardt ^a   van Huyssteen, Gerhard B ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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EID: 79961207443     PISSN: 2572117     EISSN: 23051159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02572117.2005.10587247     Document Type: Article

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